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by Susan Warner
• August 27, 2015 at 5:00 am
- Beneath a
vexing tangle of funding operations -- most hiding under a pretense
of "good works," "humanitarian aid," and
"public interest" -- there is at work a sophisticated,
multi-faceted, well-oiled propaganda machine against Israel.
- A chief
concern in the Knesset is how to curb the influx of millions of
foreign dollars used to fund anti-Israel hate-groups operating as
NGOs. These organizations are accused of using their "human
rights" designation to mask a deceptive advocacy agenda to
undermine, and even to destroy, Israel.
- When Israel
works to build "bridges for peace," such as SodaStream,
where Arabs and Jews worked peacefully together, these organizations
then knock them down.
- Apparently,
no one at World Vision asks the obvious question: Why are
there even refugee camps in territories controlled by the
Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas, such as Gaza, Jenin and
Ramallah? Not only have those areas been under exclusive PA or Hamas
civilian administration since 1994, but Israel totally evacuated the
Gaza Strip in 2005.
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A 2008 conference on "Impunity and Prosecution
of Israeli War Criminals," held in Egypt in 2008, was sponsored by
the European Union. (Image source: NGO Monitor)
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There is a European "jihad" against Israel. A significant
number of activist groups -- presenting themselves as international
humanitarian aid and charitable projects designed to benefit the
Palestinian people -- are actually "directly or indirectly active in
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions(BDS) campaigns, lawfare,
delegitimization and lobbying against Israel," according to a
detailed report by NGO Monitor.
Every year, European governments send hundreds of millions of
dollars for humanitarian aid projects in Palestinian territories.
Ostensibly, the money is intended for projects such as improving medical
care, alleviating poverty, improving schools, or enhancing
infrastructure.
But beneath the surface lurk more venomous political advocacy
agendas apparently designed to undermine Israel as a nation-state.
by Peter Huessy
• August 27, 2015 at 4:00 am
- Jeffrey Lewis
argues that, whatever China's motives are for deploying such
weapons, "there is no arguing that China's nuclear force is
small." Unless, of course, you happen to live in Taiwan,
Vietnam, South Korea, Japan, Nepal, Tibet, the Philippines, Indonesia,
or Malaysia -- all of which collectively have zero nuclear weapons.
- Lewis also
assures us China has no interest in a "large" number of
missiles. He argues that China's nuclear posture has been driven
"by an enthusiasm for reaching technological milestones"
-- as if China is simply engaging in a high school science project.
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Chinese road-mobile ballistic missiles.
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In the nuclear deterrent business, U.S. commanders both civilian and
military are paid to take things seriously.
Getting the nuclear deterrent business wrong would, after all, be
bad for America, bad for civilization and bad for the world.
Recently, China tested a missile with multiple warheads. Up to that
time, all of China's nuclear-armed missiles were assumed to have only
single warheads. Many of those were liquid-fueled and required
considerable time to load and launch.
It is true that China's increased economic and military clout is
seen by conventional thinking largely as a "peaceful rise" -- a
term taken directly from the Chinese communist party description of its
overarching goal of "pursuing a peaceful rise."
Ahh, a "peaceful rise!" So what's the worry?
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